A Technical And Critical Analysis Of The Organ Works Of Cesar Franck

Author : Benjamin Rollings
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book From Pipe Organ to Pianoforte written by Benjamin Rollings and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study will look into several facets concerning the practice of transcribing organ works for piano. Chapter 2 will explore the reasons why these transcriptions were made and continue being made. Chapter 3 will outline most of the main differences between the piano and the organ in order to clarify exactly what this type of transcription entails. Chapter 4 will categorize extant piano transcriptions or organ works into their various types and briefly look into some possible techniques transcribers used. Together, Chapters 1-4 provide general background information leading up to a more detailed examination in Chapters 5-11. A vast number of piano transcriptions have been made of organ works and it would be outside the scope of this document to give a comprehensive overview of them all. Therefore, the bulk of this study will be limited to assessing transcriptions of two works: the Prélude, Fugue et Variation, Op. 18 by César Franck and the Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 532 by J.S. Bach. At the heart of this document will be a detailed comparative analysis of three solo piano transcriptions of BWV 532 made by Ferruccio Busoni, Eugen d'Albert, and Max Reger in the last decade of the nineteenth century, a period when Bach transcriptions arguably reached its zenith. While examining the two organ works and four transcriptions exhaustively, an attempt will be made to answer the following questions: how close or how different are the transcriptions to the composer's original score, or more specifically, how do these transcriptions compare to how the composer might have played the original at the organ? Which of the transcribers are the most faithful to the composer's intentions? Are they successfully pianistic or do they fail as piano works? Lastly, do these transcriptions have any artistic merit or are they simply the curious productions of misguided pianists?